Numbers 6:8

Contemporary English Version

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

King James Version
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord .

Lexham English Bible
He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation.

New Century Version
While they are Nazirites, they belong to the Lord in a special way.

New English Translation
All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord .

Amplified Bible
'All the time of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
'All the days of his consecration he is holy to the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
All the dayes of his separation he shalbe holy to the Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
All the days of his Nazirite vow he is holy to Yahweh.

Complete Jewish Bible
Throughout the time of his being a nazir he is holy for Adonai .

Darby Translation
All the days of his separation he is holy to Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is holy because you have given yourself fully to the Lord for the full time of that dedication.

English Standard Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.

Good News Translation
As long as you are a nazirite, you are consecrated to the Lord .

Christian Standard Bible®
He is holy to the Lord during the time of consecration.

Literal Translation
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ye whole tyme of his abstinence shall he be holy vnto the LORDE.

American Standard Version
All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the dayes of his seperation, he is holy vnto the Lorde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the days of his Naziriteship he is holy unto the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
All the dayes of his separation he is holy vnto the Lord.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord.

English Revised Version
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Throughout the time of his separation, he is holy to the LORD.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ech dai of his departyng schal be hooli to the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
all days of his separation he [is] holy to Jehovah.

Update Bible Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
All the days of his separation he [is] holy to the LORD.

World English Bible
All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.

New King James Version
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the LORD.

New Living Translation
This requirement applies as long as they are set apart to the Lord .

New Life Bible
He is holy to the Lord all the days he is set apart.

New Revised Standard
All their days as nazirites they are holy to the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All his days of separation hallowed, is he unto Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

THE MESSAGE
"For the entire duration of your consecration you are holy to God .

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord told Moses ² to say to the people of Israel: If any of you want to dedicate yourself to me by vowing to become a Nazirite, ³ you must no longer drink any wine or beer or use any kind of vinegar. Don't drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins— ⁴ not even the seeds or skins. ⁵ Even the hair of a Nazirite is sacred to me, and as long as you are a Nazirite, you must never cut your hair. ⁶ During the time that you are a Nazirite, you must never go close to a dead body, ⁷not even that of your father, mother, brother, or sister. That would make you unclean. Your hair is the sign that you are dedicated to me, so remain holy. ⁹ If someone suddenly dies near you, your hair is no longer sacred, and you must shave it seven days later during the ceremony to make you clean. ¹⁰ Then on the next day, bring two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the sacred tent. ¹¹ He will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me. You will then be forgiven for being too near a dead body, and your hair will again become sacred.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Corinthians 6:17, 2 Corinthians 6:18

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:4 - separation

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.

Psalms 84:11
Our Lord and our God, you are like the sun and also like a shield. You treat us with kindness and with honor, never denying any good thing to those who live right.

Psalms 145:20
You take care of everyone who loves you, but you destroy the wicked.

Proverbs 3:4
God and people will like you and consider you a success.

Proverbs 8:35
By finding me, you find life, and the Lord will be pleased with you.

Proverbs 12:2
The Lord likes everyone who lives right, but he punishes everyone who makes evil plans.

Jeremiah 31:2
In the desert I was kind to those who escaped death. I gave them peace, and when the time is right, I'll do the same for you. I, the Lord , have spoken.

Luke 1:30
Then the angel told Mary, "Don't be afraid! God is pleased with you,

Acts 7:46
He pleased God and asked him if he could build a house of worship for the people of Israel.

Romans 4:4
Money paid to workers isn't a gift. It is something they earn by working.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the Lord. Set apart for his service, separate from all others, especially the dead, and under obligation to abstain from the above things; from drinking wine, from shaving his hair, and from defiling himself for the dead, and to be employed in holy and religious exercises during the time his vow is upon him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of the Nazarite is appropriately added to other enactments which concern the sanctity of the holy nation. That sanctity found its highest expression in the Nazarite vow, which was the voluntary adoption for a time of obligations to high and strict modes of self-dedication resembling, and indeed in some particulars exceeding, those under which the priests were placed. The present enactments do not institute a new kind of observance, but only regulate one already familiar to the Israelites Numbers 6:2.

Numbers 6:2

A Nazarite - Strictly, Nazirite. This term signifies “separated” i. e., as the words following show, “unto God.” It became a technical term at an early date; compare Judges 13:5, Judges 13:7; Judges 16:17.

Numbers 6:3

Liquor of grapes - i. e. a drink made of grape-skins macerated in water.

Numbers 6:4

From the kernels even to the husk - A sour drink was made from the stones of unripe grapes; and cakes were also made of the husks Hosea 3:1. This interdict figures that separation from the general society of men to which the Nazarite for the time was consecrated.

Numbers 6:5

Among the Jews the abundance of the hair was considered to betoken physical strength and perfection (compare 2 Samuel 14:25-26), and baldness was regarded as a grave blemish (compare Leviticus 21:20 note, Leviticus 13:40 ff; 2 Kings 2:23; Isaiah 3:24). Thus, the free growth of the hair on the head of the Nazarite represented the dedication of the man with all his strength and powers to the service of God.

Numbers 6:7

The consecration of his God - i. e. the unshorn locks: compare Leviticus 25:5 note, where the vine, left during the Sabbatical year untouched by the hand of man, either for pruning or for vintage, is called simply a “Nazarite.”

The third rule of the Nazarite interdicted him from contracting any ceremonial defilement even under circumstances which excused such defilement in others: compare Leviticus 21:1-3.

Numbers 6:9-12

Prescriptions to meet the case of a sudden death taking place “by him” (i. e. in his presence). The days of the dedication of the Nazarite had to be recommenced.

Numbers 6:13

When the days of his separation are fulfilled - Perpetual Nazariteship was probably unknown in the days of Moses; but the examples of Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist, show that it was in later times undertaken for life. Again, Moses does not expressly require that limits should be assigned to the vow; but a rule was afterward imposed that no Nazarite vow should be taken for less than thirty days. To permit the vow to be taken for very short periods would diminish its solemnity and estimation.

Numbers 6:14, Numbers 6:15

The sin-offering (compare the marginal references), though named second, was in practice offered first, being intended to expiate involuntary sins committed during the period of separation. The burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:10 ff) denoted the self-surrender on which alone all acceptableness in the Nazarite before God must rest; the peace-offerings (Leviticus 3:12 ff) expressed thankfulness to God by whose grace the vow had been fulfilled. The offerings, both ordinary and additional, required on the completion of the Nazarite vow involved considerable expense, and it was regarded as a pious work to provide the poor with the means of making them (compare Acts 21:23 ff; Acts 1:0 Macc. 3:49).

Numbers 6:18

Shave the head - As the Nazarite had during his vow worn his hair unshorn in honor of God, so when the time was complete it was natural that the hair, the symbol of his vow, should be cut off, and offered to God at the sanctuary. The burning of the hair “in the fire under the sacrifice of the peace offering “represented the eucharistic communion with God obtained by those who realised the ideal which the Nazarite set forth (compare the marginal reference).

Numbers 6:20

The priest shall wave them - i. e. by placing his hands under those of the Nazarite: compare Leviticus 7:30.

Numbers 6:21

Beside that that his hand shall get - The Nazarite, in addition to the offerings prescribed above, was to present free-will offerings according to his possessions or means.